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I need your urgent hellp to figure out how i can correct these computer errors. I will be informal as much as i can to explain my situation. To start: I have a toshiba satellite 1400-s151 laptop which is 2-3 years old. It never gave me a problem like this...UNTIL …

Hi all, Im new here so be gentle :-) Im posting from the laptop thankfully but i have a desktop in the upstairs room that has a 160 gig harddrive so i tend to use that more than this. However, I usually leave it switched on all day every day, …

Hey I really need some help.. well I just put in a new Power Supply and now my monitor doenst turn on.. it was working perfectly fine until I put in the new Power Supply. Everything goes on.. the fans in the tower but the monitor's light stays orange and …

I installed a CD-RW today and went to the local Staples to purchase some discs, and very shortly there after I found out that I needed an education. Are the blank discs called media? My CD-RW is 52x32x52x, does this mean that I need a specific blank disk? What sort …

My Asus A7V333-X motherboard will not boot. I have A AMD Athlon processor and 256MB of PC2100. The problem is nothing appears on the screen when I turn it on. I have checked the graphics card and concluded that is not the problem. It has to be the moterboard or …

I am getting vertical red/pink lines on my monitor Synmaster175V. (Are they waves or pulses?) from .5 to 2 inches apart; sometimes they slide down the page as a page refreshes. I am sure it is not the fault of the monitor because 1) when in Safe mode they don't …

I went to veiw some pictures, but the CD's tray wouldn't open. I went to add/delete hardware to troubleshoot the optical system, and it appeares to be ok. The green LED comes on when I try to access the CD, but that's it. Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional CPU …

Hi Everyone, I have a nice little 12" Keycorp SVGA monitor but unfortunately it is a bit restricted by having to use it's own dedicated PCI card (It takes it's power from the graphics card). Anybody know if it is possible to rewire this monitor to run using a standard …

I have a very crappy power supply and am worried about having power issues if i put my new hard drive in as a second hard drive. I recently put in a new graphics card that is a power hog compared to my old one (128 mb 9800 pro compared …

Dear all, I have a problem with my hard drive. In my old system I had 2 hard drives. The first one was 120G (with 2 partitions - 30G and 90G) and the system installed in the 30G. The second is a Maxtor 200G. After formatting the system partition (30G) …

I think i have a ram problem. Everytime i shut down my computer, as it shuts down i get a message that says something like cannot read from vx000000x1 or some crap like that. So i think its ram, any solutions, shouldi just replace it? btw this is a 7 …

im new to overclocking....i want to push my cpu to perform a bit faster not to the limits though.....can someone plese tell me a step by step way to do this to my cpu? :o These are my systems specs: amd semprom 3000+ MSI K7N2 Delta-L 2 pc3200 512mb RAM …

Yo guys, quick question... i know my system ram uses DDR DIMM modules......I was wondering if i buy a video card that uses DDR SDRAM memory itself (aka a GeForce 6600), will it work in my computer. Everything else the card requires i have, aka (AGP 8x slot, Extra memory, …

my computer keep showing the black screen when it boots up: PXE-E61: media test failure, check cable (i think i got this because i acidently made an external hard drive one volume as active(from storage: disk management snap-in) however it never gave me this screen when i first did that …

I hooked up a wireless D-link 524 kit for a friend. It says the indoor range is 328 ft. I have the other computer about 40 feet and it says the signal is from low to good but most of the time low. The antenna I am using for the …

Forgive me if this post doesn't belong here, as it may be a more serious problem than just the keyboard and mouse not working. I have two computers, one monitor, one keyboard, and one mouse shared by two computers on a kvm switch. One is a windows xp pro, and …

I have sitting here a compaq presario 5000 series machine (gotta love em)....one of the 2 cdroms (on is a burner) shows up in cmos. and I can boot a cd from it. However whenever your in windows (xp pro)....neither of them are there. In device manager, one of the …

[SIZE=2][FONT=Lucida Console][COLOR=DarkRed] hey i have got 256 mb of ram and i want to go buy two "sticks" of 526 mb of ram, could i trade my two 256 for one 526? or would i jsut avhe to keep the two i have and not use them and buy two …

ive been trying to OC my chip (semprom 3000+) ive gotten up to 2188.8mhz with fsb 182....when i go up to fsb183 my system crashes i have to clear the CMOS........so i tried raising the vcore to 1.675v (1.65 current setting) it crashed again, so my question is should keep …

Hi there, I'm having problems with controlling my mouse...the pointer never stays in one place, it is always moving to the edge of the screen and controlling it is very difficult once it has gone to the edge. Thanks in advance for your help.

Hey Here's a table I got from MSI's web site FSB\Memory DDR266 DDR333 DDR400 200 MHz YES YES NO 266 MHz YES YES YES* 333 MHz YES YES *** 400 MHz NO NO YES* What I want to know is this: the 200, 266, 333, 400 MHz listed in the …

This is not a question, I just want to share my expirience - who knows - maybe somebody Google's it out, and then find it usefull... A week ago (or a few days more) I've had a problem with my computer: it was restarting all of the sudden without any …

I just ordered a Toshiba Tecra M4 conertible tablet PC and was wondering if anyone had any experience with the model? Or even Toshiba in general?

Hello, just a quick question. I've a blown A-Open FSP250-60GTA power supply, and am of course looking for a replacement. I'm basically new to power supplies and I'm wondering, will i need THAT exact model before my PC will run again?

Can anybody help I have a RICOH MP5240A DVD+RW that isn't burning. When I try to burn DVD's it states can't find target drive and when I try to burn CD's it states can't perform fixation does anybody have any ideas.It seems to work to begin with but stops after …

i have a 160 gig drive hitachi, my drive has 4 partitions, c-d-e-f the problem i am having is that partition f does not show on some computers, and shows on other computers, partition f does have files on it

I do graphics, so i know a thing are two about graphic cardz, i'm also into gaming so i know about my graphic cardz!!!!! but a few days back i got the splinter cell chaos theory, i played pandora tommorrow fine, but when it was time to run this new …

Hello all, who could help me identify the loose cable in my G5 and tell me where it should go? I've attached a picture of it. This morning I noticed a strange reflection coming from behind the grill of the mac and lo and behold: a loose cable! The mac's …

I know very little about hardware and I was wondering if someone could tell me about what AGP is all about. I have a x4 slot and want to know whether x8s will work in it. Also, what does x4/x8 mean? If you can help me with this, please could …

hi,i have hp pavilion 522n. 256mb memory, 60 gb, 1.8GH... its a pretty old computer. i just reinstalled windows xp pro on it. after using it for a few days, i found that its slow when i start to open big programs. for example, if i open a big download …

I would like to put more ram into my pc as well, however, i have a few questions. I have 512 MB of PC2700 DDR -133 SDRAM. It has one more slot available to insert a 512 MB for a total maximum of 1 GB of RAM. I would just …

Hi ok.. im using a pinnacle media centre 300i tv card (its supports both analogue and digtal) with an audigy zs sound card... for some reason i cant get any sound when im viewing digital television... the sound works fine when viewing analogue tv but not on didgital.. can anyone …

HI im tryin to put all of my old VCR videos onto the computer. I have a sony VCR which unfortunately doenst have an S-video port. I actually have two video capture cards in my pc... a Geforce 5600, and a pinnacle media centre 300i.. both of these have S-video.. …

Help somebody please. My Emachine T2640 took a hit the other night in a storm, my son failed to disconnect the phone line when he unplugged it. The problem is that I have taken everything and tried to reboot by reseating everything one component at a time. I can not …

Quick story... Old computer died so I bought a new one. I would like some of the information from the old hard drive put on the new one. Is it possible to just set the old hard drive as slave, hook up the hardware, and be able to access it? …

Got my hands on a nifty little Thinkpad 240x. The hard drive has no OS on it. It came with an external floppy drive and I just bought it a new external CD drive. I'm trying to get the CD drive recognized so that I can get XP loaded, but …

Hi, I read this question on [b]itmob.com[/b] Anybody here know how to fix it?? [i]I tried to swap the P-M 705 for a P-M 745 (1.8GHz 2MB L2) but it would not work at any higher than 600MHz, so I thought it was just not compatible, so I returned it. …

I just bought a used Samsung SyncMaster 753DF 17 in. monitor yesterday, and it works great, the image is nice and bright, the color is great (this was an upgrade from an old CTX monitor with 11.5 in. image size), but no matter how I adust the settings, there is …

When i switch my pc on it doesnt do anything. The only thing that happens is the cpu fan moves about 4milimeters but then dies? I have disconnected hard drive, cd drives etc and even taken the RAM out. Anyone know of any solutions or causes. It has been working …

I've been reading some of the threads and it seems that a bad board can fry a processor. Can a bad processor fry a board? Also, is there a way to test a memory stick without taking it to your local computer store? Anyone ever try MEMTEST 86. I'm asking …

Its official, Apple has now decided not to "think diffrent" anymore. They have now changed to use intels X86 line of processors... Whay do you think, i would love if they kept their processors...

Hi Please can anyone assist, I have a Vaio PCG-F709, which was working fine until I replace the HDD, after which it refuses to boot. When powered up the power and battery leds light up, and then the power led stays on. After which nothing happens no vaio logo etc …

How do I do it? I tried to do it through the command prompt, didn't work, somebody told me I can't do it through the command prompt because XP is already running. Am I supposed to give it the command before XP starts? If so how do I do it? …

greetings, let me preface this thread by saying i am in no way a computer savy person. i woke up the other morning and my laptop wouldn't boot. when i try and boot the system it says that \windows\system32\config is missing or corrupt. while normally i would have just reformatted …

Have a SanDisk Cruzer that came with folders labeled- Secure Data Stor Pocket Cache Cruzer Sync Cruzer Lock- all apparently for secure/encryption/backup/etc. Can not imagine ever using any of this. Does anyone know if these folders/files can be safely removed?

Bear with me, I'm new with laptops. I want to get this up and running after I bought it at a garage sale for $5 (it included a CD-ROM and floppy MultiBay components, but no HD or case to put it in). Last night, I was troubleshooting a problem with …

Hi, I have a strange problem. When I turn off my PC, I can't turn it on right away. The thing is that when I press the power button the HDD light flashes on for a little time and after that there's nothing. No fans turn on, nothings seems to …

I have installed a new AGP card a Chaintech nvdia Ge Force 4200 128mb. This replaces a PCI card. The monitor does not recognise the card and will not boot up. If I re-install the old card into its PCI slot and plug the monitor in to the new AGP …

Asus A7N8X ver. 2.00 purchased November 2003, Bios version 1006 AMD XP2500 Barton 1 GB (2 x 512MB) Mushkin L2 DDR ATI AIW 8500 Soundblaster Live Platinum Win XP Antec TruePower 420 Watt Has been running great until today. I intended to intall a new heatsink/fan. So I went online …

Are hp harddrives compatible with other systems, say like a system somebody built?